Victor angerer



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V. ANGERER. STREET RAILWAY CROSSING. No. 449,433. Patented Mar. 31,1891.

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Patented Mar. 31, 1891.

V ANGERER STREET RAILWAY CROSSING.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @rricn.

VICTOR ANGERER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO \VILLIAM l/VHARTON, JR, AND COMPANY, INCORPORATED, OF SAME PLACE.

STREET-RAILWAY CROSSING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,433, dated March 31, 1891.

Application filed January 5, 1891.

Serial No. 376,749. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VICTOR ANGERER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Street Railway Crossings, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to form a rigid and simply-constructed railway-crossing especially applicable for street-railways using the type of rail known as a girder rail. This object I attain in the following manner, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan View, partly in section, of my improved railway-crossing. Fig. 2 is a plan view of one corner of the crossing drawn to a larger scale. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 1 2, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a view looking in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 2, show ing the crossing-rails, but the main rail removed. Fig.5 is a diagram View illustrating the manner of bringing up crossing-rails to the main rails to form the joint. Fig. 6 is a perspective View illustrating the cut-out main rail, and Fig. 7 is aperspective view showing the ends of the crossing-rails cut to fit the main rail.

Heretofore in constructing street-railway crossings reliance has been placed upon the securing-bolts to hold the several parts together, these bolts taking the vertical and horizontal strain, and it is to overcome this objection to the present style of crossing that my invention has been designed.

A A are the main rails, which are unbroken as regards the web, base, and flange, and B B are the sectional crossing-rails, formed in the present instance in three sections b 1) b the section I) being between the main rails, and the sections Z) 19 being on the outside of the main track, as shown in Fig. 1. The head and wagon tread 0r flange of the main rail is, as shown in Fig. 6, notched at a a, and in some instances the base-flange is also notched in the same manner as the head and wagontread. The end of the rail-section b of the crossing-rail is shaped, as shown in Fig. 7 and also in Fig. 4, to fit the notched portion a of the main rail as wellas to follow the contour of the body portion of the rail. The ends of the sections b and b are likewise shaped to fit the notches a and the outside contour of the main-track rails.

D D are right-angled brackets, which secure the crossing-rails to the main rails, bolts d passing through one arm of the bracket, through the web of the main rail and through an arm of an opposite bracket, while bolts d secure the brackets to the crossing-rails. Thus on referring to Fig. 1 it will be seen that after the several parts are fitted the brackets are seen red to the crossing-rails, and hydrawing said crossing-rails into position by the bolts cl, as shown in Fig. 5, a tight joint is formed between the main rails and crossingrails, as shown in Fig. 2. It will be noticed that one side of each notch is at an angle for the purpose of drawing the crossing-rail sections into the recesses or notches, thus insuring a tight fit. The vertical and side strains are thus taken up by the rails themselves, rather than by the securing-bolts, the latter being subjected only to the ordinary tensile strain.

At the inside corners of the crossing are angular plates e, secured to the wagon tread flange by riveted bolts, these plates being tapered, as shown in Fig. 4. Tapered plates f are also secured to the wagon-tread flanges on the outside of the joints in the same manner as the plates 6. These corner-plates are merely filling-plates to allow the wagon-Wheel to pass over the heads of the rails. They also help to strengthen the rails at the joints, butare not essential for this purpose.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination, in a street-railway crossing, of sectional cross-rails, an unbroken main rail notched for the reception of the ends of the cross-rails, and means for securing the cross-rails to the main rail, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a streetrailway crossing, of the unbroken main rail, notched substantially as described, the sectional crossing-rails, the ends of which are so formed as to fit said notches, and angular brackets secured to the main rail and crossing-rails, sulr stantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the main rail having a tapering notch, a section of a crossing-rail adapted to said tapered notch, and means for securing the crossing-rail to the main rail, substantially as described.

4:. The combination of the notched main rail, the sectional crossing-rail having ends adapted to the notches in the main rail, means for securing said rails together, and an angu- IO lar Wagon-tread plate at the junction of the rails and secured to both the main and cross rails, substantially as set forth.

' In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

VICTOR ANGERER. Witnesses:

W. J. BURNS, HARRY SMITH. 

